I enjoy Don and listening to him, often embarking on long-winded and personal recollections of real people. I LIKE the personal touch, and let's face it the best paranormal radio right now is very frequently in retrospective mode, looking back on the players and issues of once-upon-a-time rather than THE PHENOMENON.
Of course I disagreed with Don on WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION. My own memory is that the US fabricated the intel, Israel supported it, and Tony Blair unsuccessfully tried to foist the fabricationon British intelligence, which wasn't really biting.
The UNDEAD HOAXERS theme was interesting, but I kind of like Sean David Morton. He didn't really do anything all that bad, just dabbled in foreign exchange. He's a likeable fellow living in poverty, but not the kind of mean-drunk poverty of Bill Cooper, whom we could say deserved what he got, to some degree. It's not as if Morton killed anyone, and while he's plugged into some very freaky New Age circles, he's one of the more down-to-earth members of those circles, and calls BS frequently.His book Sands of Time certainly falls into the pseudo-science category, but it's also intriguing and interesting and fun. When Chris decries the lack of methodology, of a method for discerning and weeding out the pseudo-science, well, I think the situation is same as it ever was, buyer beware, there is no score card, charlatans and wise men mix and mingle.
I could be rude and point out Don's blind spot regarding Zechariah Sitchin, whom many would claim has been thoroughly debunked. Has he? I think he could read Egyptian, and dabbled in Shume-Ur-ian, but his material is SPECULATION, not scholarship. With a strong dose of fantasy. Full disclosure: I've never read a Sitchin book, but I've been reading ABOUT his work since 1986, and haven't wanted to read anything by him. SitchinIsWrong.com featured in Ancient Aliens Debunked points out his translations are flights of fantasy and he wasn't CREDENTIALED. The credentials are the least of it, for me, it's that he made stuff up and tried to pass it off as scholarship, whether amateur or academic it doesn't matter at all to me. His thing about Anunnaki creating human drones to mine gold for Nibiru's failing atmosphere sort of strikes me as a continuation of the Bender MIB fantasy and his trip to Antarctica.
Still, neither Don nor George Ignoree nor Art Bell nor Ancient Aliens are willing to take a second, even slightly critical look at Sitchin's nonsense. Ancient Aliens seems to be a show by MORONS featuring MORONS for MORONS. Not that I'm being judgmental, morons have their place in the universe, especially slightly interesting morons seeking to enhance their UFO fantasies. William Henry and Rob Simone and George Noory clearly fit that category. Art Bell ISN'T a moron, but flirts with the moronic to further his own goals.
There comes a point where one has to start considering the idea of cultural theft when it comes to all the usurpations of Sumeria, Akkadia, Babylon etc. Robert Bauval recently gave an interesting talk on Red Ice Radio about his arch-nemesis's accusations he was behind the theft of the only cartouche in the Great Pyramid. Interestingly to me the accusations included naming the Catholic Egyptian-born French-Belgian Bauval as a Jew, which was the main charge against him in Egypt, not that he put two Germans up to stealing anything. People such as Sitchin and "Simon" (Peter Levenda) have been perfectly willing to rape, pillage and mine the inheritance of Mesopotamia to fashion haphazard and flimsy new religious myths. It's not much above grave-robbing, if you ask me, and Moseley was perhaps a more honest practitioner of that dark art.
I thought the talk about Art Bell was all pretty much on-target and agreed with almost all of it. The stuff about Don being verbally attacked by the Striebers was hilarious to me, and he went through almost the same thing with Steven Greer for almost the same reason, as I recall: the proponents of the Peaceful Space Brothers can't stand a second opinion, it ofeends their RELIGIOUS sensibilities.
I've enjoyed the last several paracasts VERY MUCH, especially the crop circle hoaxter, but also the Gators fan and Don Ecker. I listen to Don's the ORIGINAL DARK MATTERS (accept no substitutes) as much as possible, even the re-runs. I especially liked the episode he recently re-ran with Walter Bosley and his Friends from Sonorra updated edition. Except I think half of what Bosley says is wrong, wrong-headed, and built upon speculation and the occlusions time casts over history. I'd like to see Bosley come and get a critical treatment by guests who know their stuff, I think it would help him and make for interesting radio. He's so obviously onto SOMETHING, but winds up chasing his tail a lot.
I know Don ends up not getting emails back quite a lot, and I'm not sure whether the problem is on his end or is interference or just down to the general apathetic malaise affecting the world these days, but I can act as a bridge here and inform him and whomever might be interested, that Art Bell RESPONDED to Sean David Morton's letter pointing out Art had stolen the name of Don Ecker's program. Art's one-line reply was, His show is called Dark Matters, mine is Dark MATTER. Then he decided to disinvite Morton onto Dark Matter, make of it what you will. Or perhaps his producer did, but in effect Art did it anyway, in the larger perspective. That was his only comment on the name-theft/borrowing, afaik.
It's great Don and Vicki have been happily married for so long and have kept on keeping on, unlike the slightly wacko couple who took over and buried UFO Magazine, without the dignity of a funeral. Congrtulations, Don and Vicki!
Oh, and that cave cache of too-high tech weapons in Israel reminded me of a story that came and went all too quickly back in the 80s I guess. Maybe late 70s. There was talk of a cave found in East Greenland, with a mysterious source of heat, and talk of a craft in there. Long before Smila's Sense of Snow. I think it was on KUOW FM once, and I read about it in some UFO magazine once, and then it was gone, gone black, debunked, dismissed, gone for whatever reason without explanation.
Barry Chamish is a frequent guest on another Genesis program, Bill Deagle's Nutriceutical Report. He hasn't been talking about the paranormal lately much, more about Zionism and politics and health. Which reminds me, if anyone really wants lower-quality smaller Paracast files, I think GCN.com offers them in low-bit format almost immediately after broadcast.
Thanks to Gene and Chris and Don for yet another extremely interesting show! Happy New Year's!